theyoungest said:
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What earlier court decision? Nothing has been proven about Leinders, even until now. Knebel couldn't just sack him, he was just let go at the first opportunity (i.e. at the end of his contract).
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You missed the first iteration of Rasmussen versus Rabo which Rasmussen won in summer 2008. *
The Management team was deemed accomplice of whereabouts fraud by the judge* and that meant that Rasmussen deserved his pay. Check the Leinders thread (4th page I think, my post with the appropriate links and case number). Note that this was about pay against Rabo cycling and that the judge could not sentence the Management Team.
Leinders, de Rooij and Breukink were the three of that Management team.
Yet in the Giro 2009 Leinders was still at the Giro (which Mencov won...).
* Having read at least part of the evidence it seems extremely difficult not to think that Knebel was already aware of the trouble of his MT's behavior. At least during the trial and most likely before this would have come up.
theyoungest said:
The team currently probably has the least amount of doping related names of any team.
And until late this year also a staff which has been dirty to the core. USPS also was a clean team if we look at the riders... they only got caught when at another team. We know better now.
Sorry, but when a team has a management so deeply and utterly corrupted I think we can't believe at face value that these young guys are uncorrupted.